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LIBRARY U OF 0 EUGENE. ORE. ''HEPPNER MERCHANTS FEEL LIKE SANTA CLAUS!" 'if tm IP 22 GIVEN AWAY EACH WEEK FROM 3- 1 i 3HM NOW UNTIL CHRISTMAS. IT'S EASY! fJ7 fR Wonaerfu Will Ipeppeir Copies 1 Oc Interdependency Of Farmers and Business Stressed Oregon farmers and city busi ness men are now almost com pletely dependent on each other for their mutual well-being, Ralph Beck, assistant director of the extension service at Oregon State college, told guests at the annual Farm-City Week banquet Monday night at the Heppner Legion hall. Beck showed how 40 percent of . all persons employed in Oregon are in some way connected with the food and fiber business and he pointed out that agriculture is the second most important in dustry in the state. He listed tim ber products as first in import ance, followed by agriculture, tourism, hydroelectric power, min erals and fisheries. He pointed to the continued development of hydroelectric power as a necessity for greater development of industry in the region. He said Bonneville pow er Administration figures show that at present we are about one third completed in the develop ment of the hydroelectric poten tial of the Columbia river syst em. Six million KW of power are now being produced, another 6 million KW are under construc tion and a like amount is still projected. Further development with its additional population gain is needed to give producers a better market for local products a market that will cut freight costs. He predicted that maybe in the next generation we will see great irrigation developments, because of dams, that will convert much present wheat land into irrigated areas. Awards Given s Master of ceremonies at the banquet, which was sponsored by the chamber of commerce, the Heppner Soil Conservation dist rict and the Farm Bureau, was , Oscar Peterson, lone, who told some of the history of the soil district. Conservation man of the year, Burton Peck, Lexington, was presented a gift from Raymond French, chairman of the Heppner soil district, and the Empire aw ard, by Jack Whitman, Pendle ton, of Empire Machinery Co., donors of the very unusual plaque. Past supervisors of the Heppner soil district were also given plaques in acknowledgment of the effort they had given the dist rict, one of the first organized In Oregon. They were John Wight man, an original member and still a director; Henry Peterson, Newt O'Hara, O. W. Cutsforth, Orian Wright, Charles Carlson and W. F. Hughes. The 1957 Grassmen of the year plaque was presented to the Wil kinson Ranches by Harold Beach, president of the Morrow county Farm Bureau who told of the accomplishments in that line which have been made on the ranches. The award was accepted by Mrs. Frank Wilkinson for her (Continued from Page 1) A- L' "'" TWiiw 1 BACK IN THE OLD DAYS OF HEPPNER Pictured is a group of five freight wagons getting ready to leave Heppner on the long trip over the mountain to John Day. This photo wss kept by Rush Crabtree, one of the two surviving men pictured, who now lives in Monument The other driver still living is Jack Hughes, Hepp ner, who brought the picture to the Gazette Times. Pictured on their wagons, when this photo was taken in June, 1912, were left to right, Roy Boggs, Harrison Added - Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, November 28, 1957 WHEATGROWERS ASK BETTER WEED CONTROL, TAX STUDY Morrow county wheat farmers turned out in larger numbers than for many years at their annual fall meeting which was held at the Lexington grange hall last Thursday. Over 70 wheat farm ers, including the ladies, attend ed the all day-tneeting and help ed with drafting recommenda tions which will be carried out through the coming year. New of ficers were elected with Milton Morgan elected as chairman and Max Barclay, vice chairman. Recommendations from the pro duction and land use committee headed by Tad Miller included a request for the continuance of a county seed source to locate and distribute clean seed to our farmers. The committee comm ended plant breeders for excellent varieties released in the last few years and asked for continued re search in the development and release of new varieties as need ed. They ask that an effort be continued to establish a USDA soils and water laboratory at the Pendleton branch experiment sta tion. They asked the Oregon Wheatgrowers League to bud get necessary funds to encour age chemical companies and the experiment stations and colleges to put an all out effort into the development of methods to erad icate the number 1 weed prob lem, morning glory. They also recommended that the Morrow county weed control district law be enforced with special emphas is on morning glory. They also asked that a study be made on Canadian screenings and that an analysis be made to obtain the percentage of weed seeds and feed value to determine the com parison with local feed grains and the danger of gaining noxious weeds through this feed. The taxation and legislation committee, chairmaned by Har old Beach, Lexington, asks that research be made on the present equalization formula in determ ining a more equal base than as sessed valuation for distribution of state basic school funds. They favored a continuation of the ten mill levy for maintenance and improvement of roads and asked for a five man committee to ad vise the county court on road needs by communities. They rec ommended that a study be made of taxation on income producing property owned by charitable org anizations to determine if they are paying their fair income tax. They felt it very important that the Oregon Wheatgrowers League hire a capable man to represent wheat growers at the 1959 state legislature and went on record opposing any increase of REA loans that would make them higher than average interest rates paid by the government on any other loans. The youth activities committee made a number of recommenda tions pertaining to the Oregon Wheatgrowers League sponsored fat stock show and sale. They asked that the show be held on June 8, 9, 10 and 11 and that the auction sale be continued in place of a marketing day which has been considered. In the live i 11 I r S i; J! -f Prizes In "Name stock judging contest held as a part of the show they asked that 4-H and FKA members be required to give oral reasons on their clas ses but that the method of judg ing these reasons be improved. They did not favor the fattening of heifers for the show and asked that no restrictive weights be set up for lambs. They were very much in favor of returning to the ration requirement of using 50 wheat necessary until the last year. They asked that the determ ination of sale weights be made through a weighing with a 12 hour shrink rather than using the off-truck weights which have been used the last two years. They felt that using off-truck weight penalized the boys and girls who musthaul their livestock a long distance, and they favored re stricting the show to Oregon ex hibitors only and were opposed to combining 4-H and FFA comp etition in the show. Bernard Do herty, Heppner, is chairman of this committee. The Federal agricultural pro grams committee presided over by Max Barclay asked that con sideration be given in develop ing some kind of program or de vice to prevent a buildup of bar ley surpluses such as has hap pened in the case of wheat. They asked that Public Law 480 be ex tended and that it include white wheat. The committee spent a Continued on Page 8 Elks Slate Memorial Service Next Sunday The Heppner Elks lodge will hold its annual memorial service Sunday, Dec 1, at 2 p.m. in honor of lodge members who have pas sed away during the past year. J. O. Turner will give the me morial address and musical sel ections will be presented by Vict or Kreimeyer. The service is open to the public. Elks Teen-Age Party Set Friday Night All Heppner, Lexington and lone high school students are in vited to the annual Elks spons ored teen-age party to be held next Friday night, Nov. 29 at the Elks temple. There is no charge for the party and members of the Heppner Soroptimist club will assist with the serving. P-TA Study Group to Meet at Lexington The Heppner P-TA study group which is currently studying local school reorganization will meet Tuesday, Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m. at the Lexington school, it was an nounced today. Members of the Lexington P-TA had met with the local group in the past and sufficient interest was shown to hold one meeting there. Anyone from here wishing transportation to the meeting are asked to call Heppner vSchool sup erintendent Joe Stewart at the high school. h A - id Heppner Area Gives Good Response To Christmas Seal Sale One-fourth of the Heppner area residents have sent in their do nations for the Christmas seals 1 mailed by the Morrow County TB iand Health Association on No J vember 15, reports Mrs. L. E. Dick, Jr., seal sale chairman. ; This response :is particularly gratifying because tuberculosis i is on the upswing in Oregon. In Portland 228 new cases of tuberculosis reported as of Octo- ber 25, 1957, are noticeably in excess of the 206 new cases in 1 1956. ! There were 539 new cases of TB i reported in Oregon last year. Sev ' enty persons died of tuberculosis last year. Christmas seals support the work of the tuberculosis associa tion for prevention and control of TB. The annual Christmas Seal sale is the only fund-raising I campaign put on by the associa I tion. 1 ' n Savings Bond Sales Climb in County j Ocober sales of E and H sav i ings bonds for the state of Ore gon were greater than any other month in 1957, totaling, $4,860, 1 451. They were up 29 over Oct ! ober 1956,. . ! Morrow county according to . county chairman Jack Bedford, showed an increase over October 1956. Sales for this county were $59,102, compared to $57,710 in October of last year. County sales through Oct. 31 this year are $247,886 compared to $228,333 for the same peroid last year. October 1956 sales were exceed ed in 27 of Oregon's 36 counties. WEATHER The Heppner we?ther station reports: Hi Low Pr. Thurs. 40 29 . Fri. 56 29 Sat. 66 40 . Sunday 70 34 . I Mon. 69 38 . Tues. 57 33 . Rainfall for week, none; for No vember .95; for the year, 15.45 inches. SUFFERS HEART ATTACK Jack Flug, county school sup erintendent, suffered a heart at- icili iviuiiuay cu iiuuu xvivtri wiitie he had gone to attend a district school meeting. He is in a Hood River hospital and Tuesday morn ing was reported resting fairly easily. FRANK BAKER SERIOUSLY ILL Word has been received here that Frank Baker, former resid ent of Heppner, is critically ill at his home at 23 S. Underwood St., Kennewick, Wash. His wife, Jos ephine Mahoney Baker was cor respondent for the East Oregonian for many years when they made their home here. Floyd Bayers and Tommy Dris- coll were in Eugene for the ball game Saturday. Tommy visited at the home of Brent Bengtson. t ' 4 f- j 4 J I 4 'i. , r Flowers, Dick Johnson, Hughes and Crabtree. The photo was taken on the corner of Gale end Willow streets, looking north on Gale street. In the distance on the far left can be seen the steeple of the Methodist church. The trip from Heppner to Monument normally took from four to eight days but sometimes required as long as 21 days. The old 4, 6 and 8 horse teams succumbed to more modern means of transportation in 1917. The Santas" Contest-See Pg. 2 74th Year, Number 38 Stepped Up Traffic Safety Program Now Under Way Heppner mayor W. C. Collins this week joined with other city and state-officials in urging all residents to take part in the slepped-up attack on traffic ac cidents program which will be gin Dec. 1. The mayor's proclamation, which is printed below, came at the same time as did a notice to all statp police officers that they are to concentrate on stringent enforcement of all traffic laws from now until the first of the year. The state police order came at the close of a month which has seen a steadily rising traffic death toll in the state, one which has pushed Oregon's deaths by traffic far above the same period last year. State patrolmen have been ord ered to desist from warning verb ally or in writing, for the re mainder of the calendar year, any person detected in violation of the basic cule and to takeap propriate court action against such persons instead. Mayor Collins urged the coop eration of all motorists and ped estrians and instructed chief of police Dein Oilman to enforce traffic laws to the limit during the holiday season. The follow ing proclamation was issued at the request of state safety offic ials: "Whereas, Oregon's accident toll usually reaches a record high during December, and "Whereas, positive action must be taken to make every Oregon ian conscious of the necessity of safe driving on highways and city streets during the holidays, and 'Whereas, the cooperation of all motorists and pedestrians with traffic activities of public officials is needed to provide ef ficient and safe traffic move ment, "Now, therefore, I, W. C. Col lins, mayor of the city of Hepp ner, do hereby proclaim the month of December, 1957 as a month to re-dedicate ourselves to stepping up the attack on traffic accidents and call upon citizens to support officials and take part in organized traffic safety efforts in order to curb the shocking traffic toll." Attendance Small At Chorus Concert The Pendleton men's chorus Tsrng to a small audience Friday evening at the high shool gym and was enthusiastically received by those who attended the con cert. The group presented a varied program of choral selections inter spersed with solos by chorus mombeis. The program was under the direction of Robert Henson, and was presented by the Hepp-ner-Morrow county chamber of commerce as a benefit for its field lighting fund. ;! 1 YOUR LUCKY NV November 29 SI SAVE I? t Xt-.h . J, N,.t .., Ikw m i f m m & &i t Heppner Si ores are Offering Many Gifts to Shoppers FIRST OF FOUR WEEKLY GIFT "GIVE-AWAYS" STARTS FRIDAY Heppner stores this week open i the Christmas shopping season with one of the most ambitious promotion projects to be under taken here in many years a ser ies of special events expected to draw the interest of every resi dent of this area. Starting this week, and con tinuing for four weeks, 22 Hepp ner stores will each offer a worth while free gift to lucky winners who visit the stores. Every resid ent can participate and each has an equal chance to win one or more of the prizes being offered to those who make Heppner their Christmas shopping headquarters. The complete rules of the con test will be found elsewhere on this page but the idea, briefly is this: In the upper right hand corner of this page of the Gazette Times is a number. Every partici pating store, whose ads readers will find elsewhere in today's paper telling of this week's free gift, and other interesting and timely merchandising news, will display a placard in their store with a number drawn at random from the circulation list of this week's Gazette Times. If the pa per number you have, coincides with the number in any store, the prize is yours. There will be a new contest each week for four weeks, with new prizes each week, and a new number on each copy of the paper so every resi dent will have four chances to win the many excellent gifts . . . in fact, every reader will have 22 chances to win each week! The unusual contest is being sponsored by the merchants com mittee of the chamber of com merce in conjunction with the Heppner merchants and the Gazette Times, as a means of proving to the residents of Mor row county that local stores are now displaying one of the finest selections of Christmas gift merchandise ever shown in this area. As an added feature, this week only, the Gazette Times is spons oring a special "Name the Sant as" contest which can prove Int eresting and amusing as well as profitable for the lucky winners. Complete details to this contest will be found with the page of HERE'S HOW THIS EXCITING CHRISTMAS GAME WORKS! 1. Check the front page of your Heppner Gazette Times for the special number which appears in the upper right hand corner of the page. Each copy of the Gazette Times will bear a special number like this each week from now to December 19. 2. Compare the number on your copy of the Gazette Times with the number on the poster in the stores of each of the 22 participating Heppner merch ants. The numbers on these posters are the lucky numbers which will be different each week. Only 22 winning num bers will be picked at random each week and each of the participating stores will dis play one number on the poster in the store. 3. If the number on your copy of the Gazette Times cor responds with any 1 of the numbers which appear on the posters in the stores you are the winner of the FREE GIFT which will be presented to . you by the store which has WW H it i n rm H i n HEPPNER NUMBER 1230 To December 4 THIS NUMBER FOR FREE PRIZES! V . . .- t . m & SJ pictures of all the many Heppner "Santa Clauses" on page 2 of to day's paper. The chamber of commerce urges every reader of this paper to read the rules (below) and start out today to see if his or her lucky number is one of the 22 lucky ones this week. Prizes in this week's contest must be claimed between Friday and next Wed nesday. Starting next Thursday there will be new prizes with a whole new set of numbers. Don't miss an ad in today's paper either, for they all tell of the prizes being given this week. It's a good way to get acquainted with all the Santas pictured in the many ads, too. o County to Receive Forest Monies State Treasurer Sig Unander has received from the Forest Serv ice division of the United States Department of Agriculture the sum of $9,450,662.51 as the annual 25 percent distributive share of the state of the amounts collect ed by the United States govern ment from forest reserve rentals, sales of timber, and other sources from forest reserves for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1957. The amount received by the state from the same source for the year ending June 30, 1956, was $9, 422,817.04, according to state treasurer Unander. The money will be apportioned and distributed to the various counties based upon the amount that was received during the fisc al year from forest reserves. The amounts apportioned are divided in the proportions of 75 percent to the road funds and 25 percent to the school funds of the counties. The tabulation by the treasurer shows that Morrow county will receive a distribution of $16, 677.35. Orin Bisbee of Sen Francisco returned to his homo Wednesday having visited his father, L. E. Bi.sbec for 10 days. your number just show your number to someone in the store. 4. Remember absolutely no purchase is necessary to win the FREE GIFTS and anyone is eligible to win regardless of age or residence. One person may win more than one time, of course. 5 The lucky winning num bers will be displayed in the stores each Thursday after noon and winners will have until store closing time Wed nesday of the following week to claim their gifts, at which time new numbers will appear in your Heppner Gazette Times and will be effective for the next week's gifts. 6. Extra numbered copies of the Gazette Times will be available at the Gazette Times office at no charge. Gifts will be given for 4 weeks so be sure to check your copy of the Gazette Times each week fof the numbers and check each store each week to see if you are a winner.
